Quoting: XilAlthough you might find the reason they give a valid one Liam, it was never mentioned on their kickstarter, all that was said was: If we get at least $400K there will be a Linux version. The whole unity 3 vs 4 excuse came later.

Oh come on, the unity 3 vs 4 was the reason behind having a stretch goal. They didn't give the exact details on what the stretch goal funds would be spent on, "upgrading to Unity 4 plus testing/bugfixing on linux" but then again, other projects don't either -- most people don't care about that level of detail, and the single-page kickstarter format really discourages it! I discussed linux port issues early on at the Pinkerton forum, and they have always been consistent that reuse of existing adventure-genre code in Unity 3 was the reason for Linux needing extra effort.

Quoting: XilThen they hook up with Phoenix online who did not even consider a linux version of the Gabriel Knight remake which at least made me go hmmmmm

That is totally not true, Phoenix Online expected to make a Linux version of GK20 after getting the whole upgrade to Unity 4 thing done! The tech lead didn't realize that the contract with Activision was not flexible enough to kick in another platform merely because it became easy to do so, and he ended up having to apologize for getting our hopes up. If Jane Jenson were a big Linux advocate, she might have attempted a renegotiation, but considering that Jane's a game developer who doesn't care a lot about platforms it's not surprising she isn't willing to take the risk of annoying Activision just to make us Linux users happy. I'm sure all the grumpy comments she's got on the topic haven't made her regret her decision either, so I've tried to shut up about it after just a few posts ;)

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I've been waiting for this news since CRYENGINE port became official!

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This sounds really intriguing, need to remember to check it out when I get a chance

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Wow Planets^3 is going to barely make it to $250k after all, with 1 day to spare

http://www.kicktraq.com/projects/1247991467/planets3/#chart-daily [External Link]

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The zany Frog Fractions 2 project has posted a free flash game called Kickstarter Simulator 2015
http://twinbeard.com/kickstarter-simulator-2015 [External Link]

I haven't played it yet since this browser doesn't do flash, but it sounds like a good companion to that off-the-wall campaign (as one of my fellow FC teammates said about the pitch video, "what did I just watch?!?")

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Quoting: liamdaweThings don't need to be in 3D or look realistic to be good-looking.

Also coders are easy to find, graphics artists aren't.

One of my best friends is a graphics artist, but I don't know of any open source game projects where she would fit in. She's a 2D artist not a modeler or animator, and doesn't particularly care for sci-fi or dark/violent themes. For work it's typical website stuff like logos and backgrounds, but as a volunteer she does cool cartoony posters with penguins for my Linux group, and for fun has also done some nice painterly still lifes. Has been using inkscape and gimp for years now, after I converted her to Linux based on the high cost of Apple + Adobe.

Any suggestions of a team where she might fit in, if graphic artists are in demand?

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Yes it was amazing! Only regret is that FC #29 got totally bumped off the list ;)

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I've played some UQM lately. The controls are a bit clunky, but the alien races you meet in your travels are quite awesome to make up for it.

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Like Hamish, I use XFCE and have never seen mouse problems in Unity

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Quoting: ruediixHonestly, if they wanted to do a tech-bubble era sell-out, they should have gone with Google.

Google would have probably paid more, and given them full creative license. Not to mention that even if Google has lost their indie cred, they still have a fair amount of tech cred.

Google probably wasn't going to offer nearly as much, because Google already has in-house talent for doing VR stuff. I assume that's why they went with Facebook for the acquisition :(

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